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Tom Peters

The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Asking Important People
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

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